One classified document from the U.S. intelligence community recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Julian Assange over the WikiLeaks publication of the Afghanistan war logs.

The decision to keep some of the records secret, in the thick of Edward Snowden’s revelations, has raised suspicions within the ACLU that the government continues to hide bulk surveillance activities from the U.S. public.

A new portrait emerges of Snowden as a principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee at the NSA Hawaii Kunia facility, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.

The unprecedented persecution of truth-tellers, initiated by the Bush administration and severely accelerated by Obama, has been mostly ignored while record numbers are charged with serious felonies for letting their fellow citizens know what's going on.

A report released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school found inconsistent rules, inadequate oversight, wastefulness and insufficient regard for civil liberties nationwide among the FBI, DHS and local police departments.

Accusing the U.S., Britain and other states of systematically abusing their powers by conducting mass surveillance, Don DeLillo, Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and J.M. Coetzee are among the renowned writers petitioning the U.N. for new civil rights protections.

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